This summer enjoy hands-on creative activities led by 18 exciting contemporary artists across City of Moreton Bay.
Enjoy free 90-minute workshops suitable for people of all ages and all abilities.
There’s something for everyone to fire up your imagination. You can make a zine or create a bird magnet. Use collage to design a unique bloom or a surreal suburban scene. Design visual motifs for collective storytelling, create a cyanotype print with plant foliage, and explore drawing or watercolour.
Happening in community venues across the city from 14 January to 21 February 2026. Each artist is facilitating two workshops providing 36 events to choose from.
Meet the artists, learn about their process, get inspired, and unleash your creativity.
Full list of artists and workshops:
Zines, collage and mixed media
- Chloe Bennett – Make a zine to reimagine everyday objects as strange and quirky.
- Manuel Moreno Guirao – Use collage, pencils and pastels to represent the values of sport.
- Claudio Kirac – Reimagine creatures, plants and places with ‘shape stories’ and collage.
- Phoebe Paradise – Imagine oversized wildlife in local suburbs with collage.
- Desirai Saunders – Make a mini zine to turn ordinary moments into whimsical tales.
- Si Yi Shen – Use paste-up to make your own unique blooms.
Clay and print-making
- Lauren Edmonds – Create a bird magnet with polymer clay.
- Tamika Grant-Iramu – Make images of local botanica with rubbings, collage and drawing.
- Jody Haines – Listen to Country to connect with the land and make a cyanotype.
- Zoe Porter – Make watercolour artworks with stencils of local plants and animals.
Drawing and design
- Darren Blackman – Explore how ideas and words can make a visual artwork.
- Dylan Bolger – Create small portraits of a local hero, mentor or family member.
- Hayden Dewar – Draw a city brimming with imaginative elements.
- Martin Edge – Draw your imaginary fantastical (or boring) day in Moreton Bay.
- Bruce Ellem – Create your own symbol about what Moreton Bay means to you.
- Lana de Jager – Design your own motifs inspired by special places.
- Prita Tina Yeganeh – Create visual symbols for sharing stories.
- Man&Wah – Make a group drawing inspired by flowers, seeds and leaves.
Image credits:
Hero – Desirai Saunders, No Expectations. Courtesy of the artist.
Image 1– Bruce Ellem in studio. Courtesy of the artist. Photographer Di Hodge.
Image 3- Lauren Edmonds. Subirbia. Courtesy of the artist.
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